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AWS AI-Driven Social Media Dashboard solution architecture
This solution deploys an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance running in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that ingests tweets from Twitter. An Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream loads the streaming tweets into the raw prefix in the...
Amazon Polly Introduces Neural Text-To-Speech and Newscaster Style
From Robbie the Robot to Jarvis, science fiction writers have long understood how important it was for an artificial being to sound as lifelike as possible. Speech is central to human interaction, and beyond words, it helps us express feelings and emotions: who can...
Intro to Pytorch with W&B
In this tutorial we'll walk through a simple convolutional neural network to classify the images in CIFAR10 using PyTorch. We’ll also set up Weights & Biases to log models metrics, inspect performance and share findings about the best architecture for...
Appen Completes Acquisition of Figure Eight and Achieves Critical Integration Milestone
Sydney — April 18, 2019 — Appen Limited, a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced it has completed the acquisition of Figure Eight, which occurred on...
What is the difference between artificial intelligence, machine learning, active learning, and deep learning?
Today, the terms artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are often used interchangeably. While the terms are related, they mean different things. Disentangling the complicated relationships between these terms can be a difficult task. We’ll try to map...
How to prevent getting blacklisted while scraping Amazon
You have to be very careful with Amazon and follow the Amazon Terms of Use and policies related to web-scraping. Amazon is quite good at banning IPs of the bots. You would have to tweak the DOWNLOAD_DELAY and CONCURRENT_REQUESTS to hit the website less often and be a...